Do you play Sudoku?
Sudoku is a puzzle that invovles numbers, but does not involve mathematics
The puzzle consists of a grid. Your objective is to fill in every row, every column and every 3 by 3 box within the grid with the digits one through nine.
You solve the Sudoku puzzle by using reasoning and logic.
Depending on your skill level, you can solve a Sudoku puzzle within 10 to 30 minutes.
Sudoku puzzles are available in many different forms including, books, computer games, and personal hand held games.
There are also sites online where you can play Sudoku if you do a Google search to find them.
I could get into Sudoku. I like anything that makes me think.
CreativeWoman posted on Oct 10, 2006
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silverwhisper said on Oct 10, 2006....
i can't get into puzzles of this sort but my wife's addicted. she takes a certain degree of pride in noting that she's been into sudoku for a good 5+ years or so.
ed
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CreativeWoman said on Oct 10, 2006....
I've just discovered Sudoku. I had avoided it because I assumed it was mathematical. I hate math! I guess i should have investigated it sooner. :-)
CW
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silverwhisper said on Oct 10, 2006....
isn't it nice when your preconceptions like that are wrong, though? i always find that really rewarding, myself. :>
ed
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Mamie said on Oct 10, 2006....
CW: I am a sudoku freak!! My husband bought me a fat little book of the puzzles and I actually look forward to jumping in and doing a few. Yea, I know, that likely means that I don't have a life!! But it is a stress reducer because you don't think about anything but where the next number will go...
You will love it!! :) Best, M
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blueyedtiger said on Oct 10, 2006....
Yea I avoided soduko because I didn't really see how it could be done, thought it would be harder than I could muster. I am in love with the darn puzzles now, mostly because the school I go to has a daily soduko puzzle on the back page.
They have another version of soduko, its like kakuro or something like that, where its soduko, but there are boxes with numbers in them, and the boxes next to them have to equal that number (think if soduko and crossword puzzles had a baby.) That one I would never imagine trying.
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CreativeWoman said on Oct 10, 2006....
Silver,
It is nice to know I was wrong about Sudoku. I was making it way too hard.
Mamie,
"Stress Reducer" is exactly what I thought when I figured out how to complete the puzzles.
blue,
Raising my hand with you. I thought Sudoku was going to be too hard for me too. Like Silver said, it's a nice surprise that it wasn't.
CW
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secretlife said on Oct 10, 2006....
I tried this a year or so ago and HATED it!!!
I have a friend who is completely hooked.
Different strokes...
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missb said on Oct 10, 2006....
I've never really tried. I also thought it's mathematical. I'm no good in math at all :)
But it sounds interesting. i might give it a try :/
Cheers :)
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inbetween said on Oct 10, 2006....
I love Sodoku! Some puzzles can get too frusterating for me though and take much longer than 30 minutes. Any tricks? On new Mac computers (like mine), the "dashboard" has Sodoku. I think I'll play some right now...
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Zayda said on Oct 10, 2006....
i've been doing sudoku for about 5 years. i'm obsessed with it. i actually have a 3-D suduko puzzle. think of something that looks and moves like a rubiks cube, but it's suduko. it's just fabulous!
there's also a word version that's challenging and fun.
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Frlncwrtr said on Oct 11, 2006....
CW:
Once in a while I do the Sudoku puzzles that are in the daily newspaper. I've tried a few online too, but find the ones in the newspaper are more challenging.
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butterscotch said on Oct 11, 2006....
I've done maybe 2 dozen of the puzzles. But there were things I loved so much more and that I would rather invest time in...like writing for example.
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rmuxagirl said on Oct 11, 2006....
My professor brought one into to class once as a way to get our minds thinking. I finished with 10 minutes, but when he tried to actually teach, everyone was trying to finish the puzzle.
My dad is completely addicted to them now too :-D
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blueyedtiger said on Oct 11, 2006....
I remember seeing "the longest soduko puzzle ever" it was about 10 pages long (the pages were folded accordian style) and there were about 30 puzzles all connected by a corner or two. I would have liked to try something like that
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justenjoylife said on Oct 11, 2006....
I was sceptic about it first, and didn't try it untill last year. I don't know why, at first it just didn't seam appealing to me. When, out of pure boredom, I tried it at some point though, I enjoyed it very much! I agree that in a way, it's always very satisfying to see yourself being proven wrong about things you think you don't like.
I'm not very good at Sudoku, and it can be very frustrating for me if I do a puzzle that's too hard for me. Normally I use 2-3 star puzzles (Dutch thing, it counts 1(easy) - 5(hard) stars in difficulty) and it's just the right difficulty for me. I love really puzzling about it, focussing just on trying to solve it, shooting my eyes and pen across the paper to make it all come together and eventually see it fill up. It's so satisfying to finish it, really great!
I love graphical puzzles. Tetris is still one of my favourite videogames ever.
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blueyedtiger said on Oct 11, 2006....
I was always horrible at tetris :(
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bloc said on Oct 11, 2006....
I can solve a sudoku puzzle within a few seconds. Seriously :)
Ok ok, here's my secret. I wrote a program in my AI (artificial intelligence) class, back in college, to solve sudoku puzzles.
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bullblogg said on Oct 11, 2006....
i play,it is good,heres a tip...don't play it while your kids are running riot,you will get stressed,it took me months to figure that out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ENJOY
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CreativeWoman said on Oct 11, 2006....
My problem is that I have never really been a "game" person. This one just looked so hard until I actually investigated it and discovered it was a puzzle.
I also have never considered math to be fun so I ran for the hills when I saw Sudoku involved numbers. I'm still not totally conviced that something involving numbers can be fun. ;-D
I never got into Tetris. I did have a Rubic's Cube. I don't think I ever solved it without peeling the stickers off. (naughty me)
Are there any other good puzzle games out there that I am missing?